Forensic Taphonomy - SMA0085

Assessment 1: Other

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Assessment 1: Presentation

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Assessment 2: Written Assignment

Written Assessment

<p>This module will give the student a general knowledge about the death process, the taphonomic changes of the body. In addition the module will provide the student the principles and methods of post-mortem interval (PMI) estimation, potentiality and limitations of the techniques.                                               </p>

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Chemical Sciences

SMA0085 - Forensic Taphonomy

Forensic Taphonomy

be able to have general understanding of the role of temperature in PMI estimation.

be able to calculate the Total Body Score for a decomposed body.

be able to show a comprehensive understanding of the decomposition process and of the taphonomic changes.

be able  to criticaly recognise the taphonimic transformations and their causes.

able to have systematic understanding of the contribution of the environmental and biological factors (plants/insects/animals) to PMI estimation.

be able to critically estimate the PMI for a deceased individual.

be able to use the most appropriate statistic approach in order to estimate the PMI and the relative error.

be able to 3)	have systematic understanding of the contribution of the environmental and biological factors (plants/insects/animals) to PMI estimation.

be able to calculate the ADD for a decomposed body.